(a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
(a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier this week, Izvestia reported that Yaroshenko had written to Trump, complaining of poor health and saying that Trump’s intervention in the case would offer his “last chance to return to Russia as a sane person.” If the two leaders do delve into more geopolitical questions, Putin will probably try to focus on issues on which Washington lawmakers could more conceivably cooperate.
(2) Is there a difference between a person who is sane and that person when he is, in some way, mad?
(3) Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "[Zeta-Jones's announcement] will have a huge impact on [people] recognising mental illness is a condition that everyone can suffer from.
(4) Kudos to Louise Byrne for her matter of fact courage #qanda @SANEAustralia October 6, 2014 Anthony Herbert (@AnthonyHerbert9) Deal with fear, maintain hope and believe people - Louise Byrne #qanda October 6, 2014 • Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline 13 11 14 or Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 • Sane Australia Helpline 1800 18 SANE (7263)
(5) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(6) USA 88, 5847-5851; Donoghue, M. J., Alvarez, J. D., Merlie, J. P. and Sanes, J. R. (1991).
(7) But since then it has gone ballistic, to the point where apparently sane men in suits, or at any rate employees of Goldman Sachs, say it is worth $50bn.
(8) Suicide prevention services, however, do not provide for suicide as a sane, honorable choice in such circumstances.
(9) And it's that magnificent compulsion that means we need to have a sane conversation about how to set limits for ourselves on another wonderful pleasure that has no natural limits.
(10) A divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for the future of America Read more “I hope Trump puts sane people in charge of this and says maybe they can stay on an individual basis.
(11) Other signatories include St John Ambulance, Volunteering Australia, Youth Off the Streets, Drug Arm, Sane Australia, the Myer Family Company, Hillsong Church, and the Australian Council of Social Service.
(12) That is a risk any sane person would seek to drastically reduce."
(13) "With the best engineers in the world, and the crew varying between the intensely respectable and the barely sane, ready to scorn any disaster, unless of Titanic scale."
(14) But the only sane response is total scepticism of the motives of those seeking to make us afraid.
(15) (Incidentally, this is hardly my area of expertise, but I fail to comprehend why any sane 21st-century human would refuse an epidural.
(16) For one thing, in a sane market, such double-digit rises for so long are not sustainable .
(17) Yet it wasn’t until my retirement that I had the time or the resources to fulfil some of the dreams and ambitions that had fuelled my imagination and kept me sane during my working life.
(18) Balmain’s collection had an Aladdin Sane jumpsuit, while Walter Van Beirendonck had a blazer adorned with a clever Aladdin Sane diagonal flash across the lapels, and Dries Van Noten and Alber Elbaz ’s autumn menswear shows both heavily referenced the Thin White Duke.
(19) I still find that the conversations I have with chefs are some of the most sane you'll ever have.
(20) I had dinner with him the first day he arrived in New York and he said to me his sister was in an asylum and she was the sane one in the family.
Sank
Definition:
() imp. of Sink.
() of Sink
Example Sentences:
(1) Land near the city of Corcoran sank 13in in just eight months.
(2) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
(3) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(4) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(5) When the nest temperature was raised to thermoneutral, the direction of pup flow reversed and an immobile animal sank to the depths of the huddle.
(6) As the reality of Putin's decision that he would return to the Kremlin next year sank in, one joke was doing the rounds: "In response to the charge that there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got plastic surgery."
(7) He said: 'Let's raise the red flag over the town hall', and my heart sank because I knew that it would be taken as a marker.
(8) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
(9) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
(10) An intravenous bolus injection of 1 mg of naloxone was administered immediately before starting a routine hemodialysis session and was repeated when the patients' systolic arterial pressure sank below 90 mm Hg.
(11) Nielsen indicated that shoppers spent 1.6% less at the UK’s leading supermarkets in the four weeks to 13 September, while the volume of items bought sank 1.9%.
(12) I thought we had finally put it all behind us, but when the authorities told us recently it was likely to happen again, that was when our hearts sank.
(13) The bodies of 111 people have been found since the boat sank half a mile from Italian territory on Thursday.
(14) It was French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit.
(15) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(16) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
(17) The presence of these radionuclides at great depth could not be explained by Stokesian settling of small fallout particles and it was hypothesized that zooplankton grazing in the surface layers packaged these particle-reactive radionuclides into large, relatively dense faecal pellets which rapidly sank to depth.
(18) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
(19) As revenues sank 28.5% to €82.6m, it made an operating loss of €3.8m, down from a €4.7m profit last year.
(20) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.